(03-18-2023, 03:18 PM)KingIngram052787 Wrote:

(03-18-2023, 02:58 PM)mikesez Wrote: I actually have to fly up to NY next week to defend myself and our company against their state government's shenanigans.
If it was any other state I would withhold judgement, but in NY, it is literally impossible to comply with every letter of the law while doing business.  Everything you do requires a special dispensation or variance, and you need friends in high places to get them expeditiously.
We are a sub and our client's client was supposed to make friends with the county commission to get their things approved, and they deliberately antagonized them instead.  They let their first contractor deviate from approved plans, didn't get their inspections done, then fired that contractor before the contractor could try to fix their government relations.  So of course that furst contractor is badmouthing the owner to the government also.  Now the government are applying the letter of the law to us, but the letter of the law contradicts itself and requires acquisition of products that do not exist. They are also directing us to do things above and beyond their law.  I've never seen any government like this in all my years of building stuff.

NY and CA are terrible states to operate in. The amount of bs required and stupid filings and notices is beyond ridiculous.  Both terrible bureaucracies.

Yeah they are both blue states now but a lot of the highly problematic crap they have was laid out by Republican governors and assemblies.  It's tempting to say "this is what happens when elections aren't competitive" or "this is what happens when democrats win" but something else went on.  I've also had bad experiences in OK, but not nearly as bad as NY.  Nowhere is as bad as NY.  CA has very unique laws but you can follow them, they make sense.  NY, their law is all twisted in knots.

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